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Volumen 71
(2026)"Volume 71 of Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl is contextualized by the 700th anniversary of the founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan in 2025, an event that prompts a critical reflection on the construction of Mexican nationalism. ... -
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El Códice mixto de Cuauhtla (Huautla, Hidalgo) Paleografía y traducción de una tasación en lengua náhuatl fechada en 1558
(2026)"What I have called the Mixed Codex of Cuauhtla is a Nahuatl appraisal dated 1558, in favor of Francisco de la Cueva, governor of the town of Cuauhtla (corresponding to the current municipality of Huautla, Hidalgo), located ... -
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Pectoral con personaje que muestra elementos iconográficos de Mixcóatl y Tezcatlipoca: 13.5 × 11 × 1.2 cm. Piedra verde, cultura mexica, Postclásico Tardío (1469-1481), Museo del Templo Mayor, Inv. 10-162942, Ciudad de México. Dibujo de Ángel González López
(2026)This paper describes a green stone pectoral discovered in April 1978 in Cista 5 (Chamber 1) of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, beneath the Coyolxauhqui monolith. The piece, dated to the Late Postclassic period (1469-1481), ... -
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Reseña de: El libro de los testamentos de Culhuacán. Vida y muerte entre los nahuas del México central, siglo xvi. Transcripción del náhuatl, traducciones al español e inglés y edición de Miguel León-Portilla y Sarah Cline, con la colaboración de Juan Carlos Torres López (México: Universidad Iberoamericana, 2023). 464 pp.
(2026)This bibliographic review analyzes "El libro de los testamentos de Culhuacán. Vida y muerte entre los nahuas del México central, siglo xvi" (The Book of Testaments of Culhuacán. Life and Death Among the Nahuas of Central ... -
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Reseña de: Baltazar Brito Guadarrama, coord., Códices de México(México: Secretaría de Cultura/Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia/Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia/Gobierno del Estado de México, 2021). 245 pp.
(2026)This review analyzes the book "Códices de México" (2021), coordinated by Baltazar Brito Guadarrama, which originated from an exhibition of 44 Mesoamerican pictographic manuscripts at the National Museum of Anthropology in ... -
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Reseña de: Antonio Reyes Valdez, Gabriela García Salido y Elizabeth Soto Gurrola, Historias de creación y destrucción. Cosmología o’dam a través del sapook, un género discursivo (México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 2022). 243 pp.
(2026)This review analyzes the book "Historias de creación y destrucción. Cosmología o’dam a través del sapook, un género discursivo" by Antonio Reyes Valdez, Gabriela García Salido, and Elizabeth Soto Gurrola. The work focuses ... -
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Reseña de: Elizabeth Hill Boone, Descendants of Aztec Pictography. The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020). 244 pp.
(2026)This document is a critical review of Elizabeth Hill Boone's book Descendants of Aztec Pictography. The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico (2020). The review highlights Boone's career in studying pre-Hispanic ... -
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Reseña de: Julia Madajczak, Katarzyna Granicka, Szymon Gruda, Monika Jaglarz and José Luis de Rojas, Fragments of the Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Census from the Jagiellonian Library. A Lost Manuscript (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021). 356 pp.
(2026)This review discusses a groundbreaking study of previously unpublished 16th-century Nahuatl census fragments from the Marquesado del Valle, currently housed in the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow, Poland. The work offers a ... -
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Reseña de: Alessandro Questa Rebolledo, Montañas que danzan. Laboratorios maseual para el mantenimiento del mundo(Buenos Aires: Paradigma Inicial, 2023). 210 pp.
(2026)This review analyzes Alessandro Questa Rebolledo's book "Montañas que danzan. Laboratorios maseual para el mantenimiento del mundo" (Mountains that dance. Maseual laboratories for world maintenance). The work departs from ... -
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Funeraria nahua, una primera aproximación: el ritual por derecho propio
(2026)"Since the inception of historical-anthropological disciplines, the subject of conceptions of death has always been one of the most relevant in Mesoamerica. However, a brief review of the literature shows an almost total ... -
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Cultural principles of children’s socialization among Nahuas of Tlaxcala
(2026)"The aim of this study is to examine the cultural principles that guide the socialization of bilingual children (Nahuatl-Spanish) from San Isidro Buensuceso, Tlaxcala. Four principles are described: the primacy of adult ... -
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La procesión de los guerreros perdidos: una serie de bajorrelieves provenientes del templo de Huitzilopochtli
(2026)"In 1913, archaeologist Manuel Gamio began an excavation at number 2 Seminario, on the southeast corner of the intersection with the 2nd street of Santa Teresa (today República de Guatemala and Seminario). He found the ... -
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Las glosas del Códice borbónico, o cómo leer un libro nahua después de la conquista
(2026)"The article analyzes the glosses of the pictographic document known as the Codex Borbonicusas a whole and in relation to the pictographic images. The mantic and liturgical content of the manuscript, expressed in the short ... -
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Revisiting Karttunen and Lockhart’s Nahuatl Nasals: insights from the Phonology and Phonetics of Chicontepec Nahuatl
(2026)"In a squib on Nahuatl nasals written in 1976, Karttunen and Lockhart address the erratic behavior of nasals in an 18th century Nahuatl text. This paper expands their discussion of Nahuatl nasals with insights from ... -
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La historia del Tohuenyo: narración erótica náhuatl
(1959)The text "The Story of the Tohuenyo," presented and analyzed by Miguel León-Portilla, unveils a Nahuatl erotic narrative deeply rooted in Toltec and Mexica traditions. Through the transformation of Titlacahuan into the ... -
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Nuevos datos para la correlación de los aztecas y cristiano
(1959)Alfonso Caso’s study provides a thorough correlation between the Aztec years and the Christian calendar, grounded on various historical and archaeological evidences. It analyzes key dates such as Hernán Cortés’s entry into ... -
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Posible influencia del náhuatl en el uso y abuso del diminutivo en el español de México
(1959)The text analyzes the influence of the Nahuatl language on the frequent use and abuse of diminutives in Mexican Spanish. Through everyday and linguistic examples, it illustrates how the richness and variety of Nahuatl ... -
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Proemio a la serie de Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl
(1959)This work, led by Dr. Ángel María Garibay K., presents a series of studies on Nahuatl culture, organized by the Nahuatl Culture Seminar of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The document addresses the three main ... -
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Una aproximación al Xochipilli
(1959)The study "An Approach to Xochipilli" by Justino Fernández analyzes the sculpture of the Nahuatl god of flowers, emphasizing its artistic and symbolic value within Mexica culture. The work highlights the unique blend of ... -
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Las figurillas de Zacuala y los textos nahuas
(1959)Laurette Séjourné’s work provides a detailed analysis of the figurines discovered in Zacuala, linking them with Nahua texts to interpret the symbolism and culture of Teotihuacán. It highlights the fragility and aesthetic ...






















